View basket “Still Bill (SACD)” has been added to your basket. Still Bill Bill Withers SKU: MFSL1-525 Barcode: 821797152518 46.00 £46.00 Genre: Soul / Funk Label: Mobile Fidelity Released Date: 23rd June 2023 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Still Bill quantity Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, Bill Withers’ Still Bill remains true to its title – and stands as the greatest male-fronted soul album not made by a singer named Marvin, Al, Sam, James, or Ray. Though the saying “keeping it real” did not exist in popular parlance when Withers released his sophomore effort on Sussex Records, no words better capture the music’s approach, mindset, and value. Every facet of Still Bill radiates honesty, truth, and emotion. These characteristics – along with Withers’ strong singing, hybrid arrangements, and deceptively simple songwriting – have allowed the album to endure to the point where it sounds as fresh today as in 1972. After rising into the Top 5 of the Billboard Album charts and attaining gold status within a year of release, Still Bill has long been evaluated not by sales – but according to its merit, spirit, and agelessness. Included by The Guardian on its “1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die” list (2007) as well as in Tom Moon’s 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die book (2008), its contemporary standing as one of history’s most venerated soul efforts eclipses the positive reception it enjoyed in the early ‘70s. Still Bill walks the same hallowed ground as What’s Going On, Call Me, Night Beat, and Genius + Soul = Jazz. Like those landmarks, Still Bill plays with a mix of consistency, effortlessness, and complexity that rewards repeat listening and transcends categorization. In combining four of the era’s predominant styles – Philly soul, sweaty funk, Southern-reared blues, acoustic-based folk – and melding them with standout production borrowed from both minimalist affairs and sophisticated singer-songwriter albums, Still Bill occupies a distinct universe. Its rhythmic fare is equally laidback and invigorating; relaxing and rollicking; eloquent and muscular; soft and tough. Withers’ calm, self-assured voice hovers above it all, doubling as a warm blanket that adds comfort and grace to lyrics steeped in maturity, perspective, and compassion. Withers’ balanced outlook on human desires, needs, and situations stem from his own existence as a former blue-collar employee who believed his time as a musician would soon end. That grounding forever separates Withers from other contemporary soul greats – and stamps Still Bill with a conversational nature and egoless approachability. “I mean look, I’m really a factory worker,” said Withers in 1972. “That’s a real job.” There’s that word again: real. The songs on Still Bill are tethered to modesty and actuality, wedded to a belief in simplicity, and connected to universal truths that link us all – independent of our economic or social standing. No track better exemplifies those principles than “Lean on Me,” a feel-good paean to brotherhood and community that hit No. 1 on the pop and R&B charts en route to becoming a mainstream staple. Withers approaches the plainspoken insight on “Lonely Town, Lonely Street” and heartbreaking vulnerability of “I Don’t Want You on My Mind” with similar sincerity and straightforwardness. His proclivity for authenticity extends to the record’s other big hit: the sexual, funk-laden “Use Me,” which reached No. 2 and reflects the singer’s everyman persona. It’s an identity couched in keeping it real, the very inclination that ultimately led Withers to retire in the mid-’80s rather than bend to industry pressures or risk credibility. That commitment to truthfulness and realism helps make Still Bill feel as unaffected as the air we breathe. Looking back on “Lean on Me” years later, Withers said it seemed like “something that was there before I got here” – the kind of song that could be 100 or 10 years old, or one we encounter anew 10 years into the future. The same can be said for every note on Still Bill. Artist Bill Withers Genre Soul / Funk Label Mobile Fidelity Buying Options 180g 1LP Gatefold Sleeve Format 180g , 1LP , Gatefold Sleeve Condition New Country UK Track Listings 1. Lonely Town, Lonely Street 2. Let Me in Your Life 3. Who Is He (And What Is He to You)? 4. Use Me 5. Lean on Me 6. Kissing My Love 7. I Don't Know 8. Another Day to Run 9. I Don't Want You on My Mind 10. 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